Once sown, seeds spend significant amounts of time just absorbing water from the soil. By reducing this
time to a minimum seeds can be made to germinate and seedlings emerge. The quicker to do this is to
soak seeds in water before sowing. It has been reported that primed crop seeds emerged faster and grew
more vigorously. They also flowered earlier very important in drought-prone areas, matured earlier and
gave higher yields. Priming has, therefore, become very popular and it is simple and cheap yet extremely
effective (Broud et al., 2006).